Kangxi, your Qing Dynasty is dead

Constantiniya, port of Posephilion.

One hundred and forty fifty galleys, led by a galley warship of the Ottoman Turkish Navy, filed into the water gate of the ancient Port of Posefilion near the entrance of the Golden Horn.

The Port of Posephilion is a seaport with city walls and water gates. Its city wall is part of the ancient city wall of Constantinople. It is divided into east and west sections and extends from the land to the sea, effectively enclosing a body of water. , forming a port protected by city walls.

Although there is no real door at the water gate of Posefirion Port, the passage in and out is not wide. There are ancient artillery on the walls on both sides - Constantinier has not seen it for more than 200 years. If there are foreign enemies, there is no need to replace the ancestral cannon.On the city wall of the harbor, soldiers of the Chenieri Legion wearing turbans and carrying matchlocks were patrolling and standing guard.These soldiers are no longer slave soldiers from the Christian vassal states on the Balkan Peninsula, but are the descendants of the old slave soldiers in the past. The majestic Constantinier has a green flag.

The name of the slave soldiers of the Chenieri Legion sounds like they are oppressed slaves, but in fact they are a carefully crafted military elite of the Ottoman Empire, whose members all come from pagan families on the Balkan Peninsula.Before the corruption of the Chenieri Legion, all slave soldiers were purchased from childhood and sent to the military camp of the Chenieri Legion. Then they had to use the military camp as their home and the Sultan as their father to receive strict military training and education.In the process of their growth, they have to undergo layers of tests and eliminations. The slave soldiers who can finally become real Chenieri warriors are all elite soldiers with outstanding combat effectiveness.

In addition, because these elite soldiers received a good education and were close to the Sultan, they were regarded as confidants. After retiring, they could easily enter the Ottoman Empire's bureaucracy and hold important positions. These "old slaves" were obedient and useful, and they also It is impossible to usurp the throne, and it is much easier to use than the Ottoman "Old Zheng Green Flag".

And these "old slaves" who became imperial bureaucrats after retirement, of course had to marry wives and have children to settle down in Constantinople - according to regulations, Chenieri's slave soldiers could not get married during their service.So they could only get married after leaving the military camp. Although they were already in their 40s and 40s at that time, they were elite soldiers of Cherinye and their physical fitness was not to mention!Not to mention 60 or [-] years old, even [-] or [-] years old, he can still marry four wives and have children.

Moreover, before the rise of Rakshasa, Constantiniya was a big market selling Ukrainian slave girls. It is impossible for Chenieri veterans who are old, have money in their pockets and have good jobs to marry. Fuck my wife.

Over time, the descendants of old Chenieri slaves multiplied in Constantiniya. By the 17th century, the city of Constantiniya was filled with descendants of old Chenieri slaves and Ukrainian slave women.
At the same time, Chenieri's old slave position in the Ottoman bureaucracy was getting higher and higher.And the power of the empire is completely controlled by the Chenieri veterans. The Chenieri old slaves can even control the legions to mutiny and dethrone the Sudan!
Under such circumstances, Chenieri's hereditary transformation is inevitable!
Once the Chenieri warriors are hereditary, they are no longer slave soldiers who can be strictly trained and eliminated step by step - according to the teachings of Tianfang Sect, believers cannot be sold as slaves.The elder Chenieri was not a Tenka believer before he became a Scout, but their children were born as Tenka believers.

So Chenieri changed from a slave soldier army to a master soldier army.
The hereditary Chenieri later became a high-ranking official in the empire, so the intricately connected Chenieri aristocratic and bureaucratic family came into being.

Now sitting in Constantinople looking after the house of Sultan Muhammad IV is the Imperial Finance Minister, Koprulu Fazo Mustafa Pasha, who comes from the most prominent Koprulu family in the Ottoman Empire.The Koprulu family had been in control of the empire since 1656. It was not until 1679, when Mustafa's brother, Koprulu Ahmed Pasha, died young that the Grand Vizier was The Sultan handed over to Kara Mustafa Pasha, who was more to his liking.However, this Kara Mustafa Pasha is not an outsider to the Koprulu family. He is the brother-in-law of Fazo Mustafa Pasha.

Fazo Mustafa was very worried about his brother-in-law's strategy of blindly catering to the fantasy of Sultan Muhammad IV, ignoring the reality of the empire's decline, and forcibly launching an army of 25 to besiege Vienna!

Because he knew very well how weak the seemingly arrogant Ottoman Empire was actually. Among the so-called 25 troops, there were only 13.8 real soldiers - this was a number that was already pieced together with all the efforts!Among the soldiers, there are only 5 chenieri who are well-equipped elites.The number of artillery available to the entire army is not large, only about 150. Although the caliber is not small, it is difficult to destroy Vienna's solid city wall.

According to the latest information obtained, the number of defenders in Vienna is about 23000.Although this number is far less than the 13.8 soldiers in the Ottoman army, relying on the city walls and a large number of artillery to defend the city, they are not without power to fight.

If the Ottoman army attacking the city cannot be defeated quickly, as time goes by, the Holy Roman Emperor and the Pope will sooner or later piece together a large number of reinforcements to save Vienna. If it were not for the Holy Roman Empire in the previous Spanish Netherlands War The losses were so heavy that Fazo Mustafa Pasha even suspected that the Ottoman army, which had been unable to attack Vienna for a long time, had been defeated by the Catholic coalition!
However, as the quick siege turned into a long-lasting siege, the Ottoman Empire and her army became increasingly dangerous. As the war entered its second year, the Ottoman Empire's finances were already a bit stretched. Can't stand it anymore! The military pay and consumption of a 25-strong army are absolutely astronomical figures!During the first years of the war, armies besieging Vienna were also able to raid around Vienna to raise some of their supplies.But now, the area around Vienna is already running out of supplies, so supplies must be transferred from the rear to the front.

However, the supply in the Ottoman Empire was also very tight, because a large amount of labor and livestock were used in the war, coupled with the drought in Asia Minor, which caused the price of food in Constantinople to rise again and again. Fortunately, Fuquans of the Rakshasa Kingdom In the past two years, Prince Kyrgyzstan opened a Dnieper-Black Sea trading company to traffic high-quality and low-price Ukrainian wheat to Constantiniya in large quantities.

Otherwise, in order to collect enough rations for the Sultan’s army, Constantiniya might suffer from famine!

However, the collapse of financial and logistical supplies is only a danger. There is also a greater threat approaching step by step - according to reliable information sent by the ambassador to France, Poland has sent reinforcements to the Holy Roman Empire!King Jan Sobieski of Poland has personally led an army to advance towards Vienna!
The regent princess Sofia of the Rakshasa Kingdom is also actively considering joining the war. As long as the Pope and the Emperor can give her 3000 million freres in military expenses, she will march to the Black Sea immediately!At the same time, the grain trade on the Dnieper River will be cut off and Ukrainian wheat will be banned from being shipped to Constantiniya!
However, the threat of the Rakshasa people should be just to raise the price. After Fazo Mustafa Pasha gave a very attractive offer, a full 150 ships of Ukrainian wheat have been shipped to Constantiniya. .

Moreover, Prince Fozansky also told the Ottoman ambassador: If the Sultan is defeated in Vienna, the Rakshasa will declare war on the Ottoman Empire and march into Ukraine on the right bank. If the Sultan captures Vienna, then the Rakshasa Kingdom will stick to the Izyum Defense Line. , waiting for further changes in the situation.

Fazo Mustafa still believes in this statement.If the Sudan is defeated, Ukraine on the right bank will definitely have to give up. It is not a territory firmly controlled by the Ottoman Empire, but is only nominally subject to the rule of the Sudan.Therefore, the Rakshasa Kingdom can completely declare war in a pretense, and then take over the right-bank Ukraine without any effort, and can negotiate peace with the Ottoman Empire afterwards.

If the Sultan wins then thank God!Of course, the Rakshasa Kingdom will be waiting for a price. Western Europe may offer a higher price to buy them!

So continuing to wait and then sell the grain at a high price seems to be the best choice!Surrounded by a group of Chenieri soldiers, Fazo Mustafa Pasha, standing on the city wall of the Eugifilion Gate near the port of Posefilion, was calculating in his mind the final fate of the Rakshasa Kingdom. How to join this war that seems to be increasingly unfavorable to the Ottoman Empire, while personally supervising the unloading of grain from Rakshasa's grain transport ships entering the port - although he does not think it is possible for Rakshasa to wait until the situation is resolved. Join the war when the situation is completely clear, but be “bear-proof”!

Under the watchful eyes of Fazo Mustafa Pasha, Rakshasa merchant ships docked at the dock one after another.Some little men wearing oriental-style white silk robes with braids on the back of their heads got off the boats, and then they left the dock in small groups and walked towards the bustling city of Constantiniya - those people They were all retainers of Prince Fozansky, and many of them came with the ship last time. After getting off the ship, they went to Constantiniya's brothel and the "Yangma Market" to have fun. Before leaving, they also bought a few A first-class slave girl, I heard that Prince Fozansky wanted her.

Well, this prince from the East doesn't act like a Christian at all
There were also some big Rakshasa guys with braids who got off the boat. These people should be oarsmen and crew members. After they got off the boat, they started carrying big bags - Rakshasa people are poor!The more you work, the more you earn.

They did the same thing last time, and ended up getting into a fight with the Armenian coolies. They had a fight and killed more than 100 Armenians!

So this time Fazo Mustafa Pasha knew that the "hairy bear" was coming, so he sent people to drive away the Armenians carrying bags on the pier.
There were also some stocky Mongolians who also got off the boat, each carrying a big baggage. Mustafa Pasha knew that those were wine sellers under Guanyin Bao!
Well, making and selling wine is illegal in Constantiniya!
But Fazo Mustafa Pasha himself also likes to drink a few alcoholic drinks every night!So you can make a lot of money from this business.

In this regard, Fazo Mustafa Pasha also decided to turn a blind eye. It was a rare occasion for people to come here, so what if he sold some wine?

Finally, many white-skinned women with bare feet, cool clothes, shackles and handcuffs got off the Rakshasa boat!

This time, Fazo Mustafa was stunned!

what 's wrong?When did the Rakshasa people start selling Ukrainian slave women?Isn’t this the business of robbing the Crimean Khanate?This is not possible!Thinking of this, Fazo Mustafa quickly took out a telescope and observed it carefully.

The quality of those white female slaves is good, plump and strong, they are all the type that the Sultan likes!Fazo Mustafa Pasha immediately put away his telescope, then led a group of Chenieri down the city wall, and ran to the pier to see what was going on.

When he walked to the dock, the white female slaves had already formed two rows on the edge of the dock under the command of a bearded man in white, attracting many guards on the dock to watch - this was Want to auction?
When the soldiers guarding the dock and nearby city walls saw this scene, they all came to watch.

When someone saw Fazo Mustafa Pasha, they shouted: "Mustafa Pasha, are you also here to buy a female slave?"

Fazo Mustafa Pasha blushed and did not answer, but asked calmly: "What's going on? Why are the Rakshasa people engaged in the business of selling female slaves?"

As soon as he finished speaking, a rectangular red eagle flag suddenly appeared on a galley on the dock!
This is the flag of the Roman legions!
How could he appear in Constantiniya?
Before Zoffa Mustafa Pasha understood what was going on, he heard a crashing sound. He quickly followed the sound and found that the female slaves had thrown off the shackles on their hands and reached out to lift them up. Skirt, took out the pistol from the holster tied to her thigh, and then with a command, all the pistols were leveled and pointed at the surrounding soldiers in front!
Raid!And using such despicable means!

As soon as Zoffa Mustafa Pasha thought of this word, he was thrown to the ground by a Chenieri soldier next to him. Then he heard a "crackling" sound, and the dock was suddenly filled with smoke. Zoffa Mous The soldiers brought by Tafa and the original guards on the dock were swept down like wheat!The pier was littered with Turks who had been shot and fell to the ground.

The remaining Chenieri soldiers and guards reacted immediately, but they had no time to light the match ropes and load ammunition. They just drew their swords and wanted to pounce on the people.

But the Rakshasa men carrying the big bags reacted faster than them. They all drew their machetes from the big bags they were carrying, shouted "Ula" and rushed forward.The two sides soon fought together!
The "female slaves" also threw off their shackles, received short spears and shields from the sailors on several galleys behind them, and then formed a Roman-style shield array, shouting slogans, and together they attacked the fighting men. The crowd pressed through!
These "female slaves" have actually received strict training and are real female soldiers!
And those Rakshasa men who shouted "Ula" also maintained an arc formation when fighting the Turks, wrapping the Turks on the inside.And this arc-shaped formation and the shield formation of the Rakshasa girls formed a front and rear pincer attack on the Turks on the dock.
The Rakshasa attacked the Turks from the front and back, and the battle on the dock quickly determined the winner. All the Ottomans, including Fazo Mustafa, were killed by muskets and spears. Down.

Immediately afterwards, more Rakshasa braided troops carrying muskets began to disembark from the galleys docked at the pier, and then rushed into the city of Constantinople one after another.

At the same time, gunshots, shouts of death, and exclamations also sounded at other gates of Constantiniya (End of Chapter)